SAN FRANCISCO JOLTED BY AN EARTHQUAKE OF MAGNITUDE 3.6

Highlights

• The USGS said the earthquake struck at nearly 5.42 a.m. and its epicenter was located about 4 miles south of Muir Beach and nearly 4 miles towards west of San Francisco

• The USGS also said that early on Thursday morning, an earthquake of magnitude 2.6 was reporte...

SAMSUNG BIOLOGICS BROADENS HORIZONS WITH INSTALLATION BASE IN SAN FRANCISCO

• Samsung Biologics has opened its first overseas installation in San Francisco as part of the contract policy and manufacturing organization's efforts to provide an unparalleled service network to more than 2,500 life science and biotechnology firms in the city.
• Also at the ...

625 WILDFIRES IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Highlights:

•       The fires started due to lightning in August 2020

•       Three major fires are being fought continuously

Even as the pandemic continues with its second surge, fires across the ...

DNC TAKES OFF; FORMER TRUMP SUPPORTER’S DAUGHTER SAYS: WILL VOTE BIDEN FOR HER LATE FATHER

Highlights:

•        The DNC is themed “We the people”

•        The event went online

As the DNC (Democratic National Convention) themed “We the People” takes off ...

WELLS FARGO BANK REPORTED ITS FIRST QUARTERLY LOSS THIS YEAR

Highlights –

• Wells Fargo bank reported its first quarterly loss this year.
• The bank reported a loss of over $2.4 billion in the second quarter.
• The shares of the bank fell by 4.1% in premarket trading.
• A year ago, the bank...

FLIGHTS RESUME FROM SFO TO EUROPE, WITHOUT A PAUSE

Highlights:

• Nonstop flights to resume from SFO to Europe.
• Flight services to Europe were on a halt since April 1.  
• The airport authorities are taking all the safety precautions.

Many International flights are heading...

118 INDIANS REACHED HYDERABAD FROM SAN FRANCISCO, ON MONDAY, AMID COVID LOCK DOWN

Highlights:

• 118 Indians reached Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), from San Francisco.
• Indian Government’s Vande Bharat mission is an effort to bring back stranded Indians back.
• The RGIA was thorough...

INDIA BRINGS BACK 225 INDIANS FROM US, AMID COVID CHAOS

Highlights:

• Government of India is carrying out Vande Bharat Mission, to bring back stranded Indians abroad.
• The Indian Government brought back 225 people from San Francisco.
• On Monday, an Air India flight carrying 225 Indians, rea...

SF HUMS ALONG TO TONY BENNETT NUMBER TO LIGHTEN UP

San Francisco put on its face masks and bellowed out, as best it could, that popular Tony Bennett tune about the city by the bay.

At high noon, Saturday, April 25, the sound of " I Left My Heart In San Francisco" thronged many city streets — and social media feeds &...

INSTACART HIRING SPREE ENROLLS 3 LAC EMPLOYEES; PLANS FOR MORE

Instacart enrolled 300,000 workers into its roster in recent weeks to meet the surfeit demand headlined for grocery deliveries

Now the startup is planning to hire another 2, 50, 000 employees over the next two months.  The additional workers are treated as independent contractors.<...

HOW EMPTY TECH OFFICES SHUTTERED TO FLATTEN THE CURVE

• Long before the U.S. President Trump exercised a stay-home option to counter the COVID-19 virus, many tech companies including APPLE, Inc., Salesforce, Inc., and many other companies had closed shop.
• Small companies which don’t get written about or mentioned in tabloids o...

NUCLEAR FAMILIES ARE MORE LIKELY TO CATCH CORONAVIRUS.

• COVID-19 has a penchant for nuclear families
• They can’t keep up social distancing, however hard they try.

As if the President Richard Nixon Watergate scandal that rocked the US in 1972 was not enough, we have one Watergate Apartment that...

SAN FRANCISCO EXHIBITS ONLY 6 NEW CASES of COVID-19 TODAY

• There are both empowering and concerning information focuses originating from the SF Department of Public Health on Thursday.
• One of the previous being the most reduced one-day uptick in affirmed COVID-19 cases in the city in weeks.

In the wake of intersection...

MSC ANNA - LONGEST CARGO VESSEL TO DOCK AT SAN FRANCISCO BAY

• The biggest Cargo Ship ever to touch San Francisco Port is here and it is taller than Sales Force Towers, the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco.
• The ship christened MSC ANNA originated in Shanghai and was off the coast of Half Moon Bay at 10 am.

The ship wil...

SAN FRANSISCO MAYOR REFUTES TRUMPS TAKE ON ITS SEWER SYSTEMS

• Donald Trump calls the sewer system of San Francisco the unhealthiest and decrepit sewer system and terms it hellish.
• San Francisco Mayor London Breed however found Trumps notions completely misguided and offhand. She also said that the sewer system of San Francisco was the mos...

SAN FRANCISCO GETS ITS HOMELESS INTO HOTELS

Highlights:  

• The homeless population most vulnerable and exposed to the virus
• A transmission amongst this community will spread like wildfire
• Medical professionals give priority in the hotel

With the pandemic of the virus spreading a...

Judge will not reinstate complaint over the ads of Diet Dr Pepper

SAN FRANCISCO — It's not a weight-loss pledge to call a soft drink "diet," a federal court of appeals ruled Monday.

San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to re-establish a class-action lawsuit by a woman who argued that Diet Dr. Pepper'...

Research claims future jobs are clustered in a few U.S. cities

WASHINGTON–A new analysis of where "innovation" jobs are being produced in the United States paints a clear picture of a fragmented society where companies in a shrinking collection of areas are seen as crucial to the future growth cluster.

The divergence between strong-...